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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynes  » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Thiodininae » Thiodina

Genus Thiodina

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
jumper 2000' - Thiodina hespera - male Spider - Thiodina sylvana - male Jumping spider - Thiodina sylvana - male Jumping spider - Thiodina sylvana - male Do I know you? Thiodina hespera, right? - Thiodina hespera Do I know you? Thiodina hespera, right? - Thiodina hespera Jumping Spider - Thiodina sylvana - female Salticid - Thiodina sylvana
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes )
Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)
Subfamily Thiodininae
Genus Thiodina
Numbers
Three species in BugGuide's range (North America north of Mexico).
Identification
One helpful diagnostic character for this genus is the presence of two pairs of ventral bulbous setae on tibia I, seen on a preserved specimen here:



This character is apparently present on both adults and immature spiders.
Range
Thiodina hespera: southwestern United States, all the way to the west coast
Thiodina puerpera: eastern half of the United States
Thiodina sylvana: eastern half of the United States
(all range info taken from(1))
Print References
Richman, D.B. and R.S. Vetter, 2004. A review of the spider genus Thiodina (Araneae, Salticidae) in the United States. The Journal of Arachnology 32(3):418-431 [download available here]
Works Cited
1.A review of the spider genus Thiodina (Araneae, Salticidae) in the United States
By David B. Richman & Richard S. Vetter
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Jay Barnes, Jeff Hollenbeck, kschnei, Mandy Howe
Last updated 22 May, 2011 - 9:42pm

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